Financial crisis

Most analysts are cautious on gold these days, especially since the market anticipates a rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve next week. But there is some mild optimism seeping into the forecasts for 2016, including the one from J.P. Morgan analyst John Bridges, who pointed out that gold has …

Brent crude fell below US$40 a barrel for the first time in almost seven years after OPEC effectively abandoned any limits on crude output, prompting speculation that a record global glut will continue. Prices fell to the lowest since Feb. 20, 2009, dropping for a third day after the Organization …

For Canada’s oil industry, the bad news won’t stop. With OPEC’s decision on Friday to keep pumping oil in the face of a glut and prices for the commodity falling to their lowest level since 2009, Canadian producers are once again faced with the now-familiar problem of how to make …

Canadian oilsands producers like Suncor Energy Inc. like to tout the long life of the world’s third-largest crude reserves as their greatest asset. That longevity may now be their biggest liability with a new global agreement to curtail carbon emissions. Secret deal on carbon emissions has driven a rift through …

CALGARY — Suncor Energy’s latest appeal to Canadian Oil Sands shareholders attacks the leadership of the reluctant takeover target for having ‘almost no skin in the game.’ Suncor CEO Steve Williams says COS directors and executives own less than 0.1 per cent of the company’s shares. He says if COS …

ST. LOUIS, MO. – The U.S. Federal Reserve has it easy — at least compared to the problems that would face a Central Galactic Bank after the smoke clears from the anti-Empire rebellion when Star Wars episode VII premieres this week. Blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars would …

The owner of Canada’s largest stock exchange is trying to make the company more enticing to technology startups amid new competition from Nasdaq Inc., the global heavyweight in tech listings. TMX Group Ltd. wants more tech firms on its venue for small companies, the TSX Venture Exchange, with the goal …

Calgary headquartered Mawer Investment Management, is known for many things: it was founded more than 40 years ago, it manages more than $30 billion of client assets, it is home to 40 employees, it now has offices in two other cities, Toronto and Singapore and is a regular winner of …

BISHKEK/TORONTO — Kyrgyzstan’s government said on Tuesday it had stopped talks with Canada’s Centerra Gold on restructuring their joint Kumtor project because the current agreement “ran counter to the country’s national interests.” The decision, the latest twist in a drawn-out tussle over the mine’s fate, sent shares in Centerra sliding …

CALGARY – Perpetual Energy Inc.’s share price plunged more than 20 per cent Thursday after securities regulators ruled in favour the company’s planned $25 million rights offering. Lawyers for Perpetual argued at an Alberta Securities Commission hearing Tuesday and Wednesday that an application to cease trade the offering would have …